Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle.

Williams maintained that he was innocent in the 1998 killing of Felicia Gayle. No forensic evidence linked him to the murder, ...

Citing opposition to the death penalty and doubts about Williams’ guilt, a local and national outcry did not stop the ...

Marcellus Williams was murdered by the state of Missouri even though most people - including the victim's parents - say he ...

Prosecutors and the victim's own family pushed for Marcellus Williams to be taken off death row, but the appeals were denied by the Supreme Court and Missouri officials.

Marcellus Williams, convicted of killing Lisha Gayle in 1998, faced execution despite the victim’s family and prosecutor ...

Mike Parson (R) signed a proclamation banning the procedure ... Parson released a statement on a different but overlapping ...

Marcellus Williams had always maintained that he had nothing to do with the stabbing death of a former St. Louis ...

Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the August 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her ...

Though Williams was convicted of Gayle's murder in 2001 after testimony from 22 witnesses, many have demanded his death sentence be called off ...

Williams was put to death despite questions his attorneys raised over jury selection at his trial and the handling of ...

The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 of killing Lisha Gayle during what seemed to be a botched burglary. Marcellus Williams, ...